Re: gnulib is no longer an hg subrepo

[Markus Mützel]

Am 24. Januar 2020 um 15:44 Uhr schrieb "John W. Eaton":
> After this change (on stable, merged with default):
>
>    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/ece72b94486f
>
> the gnulib sources are no longer managed within the Octave mercurial
> archive as an hg subrepo.  Instead, we now have the bootstrap script
> fetching a copy of gnulib using git.

Thank you very much for that change. That will probably make updating gnulib a 
lot easier in the future.

> After updating the Octave sources to get this change you will need to
> remove the gnulib subdirectory in your source tree and run bootstrap to
> pull a new copy of gnulib from upstream (commands executed at the
> top-level of the Octave source tree):
>
>    hg pull -u
>    rm -rf gnulib
>    ./bootstrap

The MXE Octave buildbots (native and Windows cross-builds) seem to be failing 
since that change.
Maybe the octave-hg-repo (or at least the gnulib subdirectory) needs to be 
cleared once on the workers, too?

Markus